So I guess this is where I finally have to admit I only saw Dark Crystal once in 1982 and don't remember much about it?

But if this is going to be a thing, I'm willing to watch it again...

I don't drink either, but happy to help with the carrying.

However they manage it, it just seems too soon for Hank to be taken out of the picture.

But I'm real worried about Gomie... 

This conversation made me want to watch Romancing the Stone again... except it doesn't seem to be available from any of the standard streaming sources.  Bummer.

So instead, because I gave it such a hard sell over in the Three Defining Movies of Adolescence thread but hadn't actually watched it in ages, I took another look at Harold and Maude.

By the way, I have never seen a Harold and Maude poster or cover that was anything other than hideous - clearly no marketing department has ever had a clue as to how to portray this flick, and rightly so.     This one is the least objectionable of the bunch...

So anyway I gave it a rewatch (hell, it's 90 minutes long and $3.99 to outright buy it on iTunes, why the hell not?) and... sweet jeezus I still love every second of this movie. 

For some reason my usual hatred of whimsy in movies doesn't seem to get triggered by the occasional whimsy in this one.  Well, maybe there's a little bit too much in the Tom Skerritt scene (his first movie role, I think this was).  Possibly because the whimsy is leavened with sprinkles of comedy that's blacker than the beasts in Attack the Block.

Anyway, if you haven't seen Harold and Maude, I'm not even going to try to sell it to you - if you give it a shot you'll probably know within the first five minutes if it's for you or not.  If it IS, then strap in.     

And take special note of the ending, which takes all the plot that movies today would probably make their third act and gets it done in five minutes.  And most of those five minutes consists of a montage which is still my favorite montage in any movie ever.

Side note: Ruth Gordon was a fascinating lady - if you know her at all, it's probably from Rosemary's Baby - but she lived one hell of a life.   Check out her Wikipedia page for a picture of her as the original Manic Pixie Dream Girl... in 1919.  Lordy.

Jewel of the Nile suffers from advanced sequel-itis, it was a pretty blatant cash grab for everyone concerned (except Zemeckis, who passed on the sequel to direct some flick about time travel and incest instead. )

Unlike Romancing the Stone, Jewel is just big and loud and expensive and completely lacking the charm of the original, which was one of those whadda-we-call-ems... "perfect movie"s.

Jesse IS a lost soul, pretty much has been since Jane's death.  I see that as the main reason he keeps trying to get rid of the money and get himself into trouble - he's punishing himself.   More and more, it's been Walt who thwarts Jesse's attempts to destroy himself because that would likely also expose Walt.

One key piece of info Jesse still doesn't have - Walt watched Jane die when he might have saved her.  I dunno if Jesse will ever find that out... but it's for damn sure if he does, that's gonna trigger the Apocalypse.

Holy shit.  So that's what The Big Bang Theory is like?   That's some weapons-grade crap right there.

Anyway, as for the Trey Stokes action figure... tempting.  Very tempting.

On first read I thought you meant Touching the Void, which I liked just fine.  But never mind that now.

So I checked out the trailer for this other Void and... hmmm.   I may give that one a go someday but I'm not exactly motivated to, if'n ya know what I mean.

Oh, there are all kinds of ways Hank could nail Walt now - as you say, Jesse gave them a ton of leads that can be investigated, and which would likely turn up plenty of incriminating evidence.  But to do any of that  would require effort and manpower from the DEA or APD or IRS, etc.   

So Hank isn't doing any of those things because he wants absolute proof already in hand before he makes it official.  As he said, his career is over as soon as anyone finds out about this - he wants his last act to be the absolute destruction of Walt.   And/or - conclusively proving that Walt is Heisenberg is the only chance he has to salvage something of his career.  Also, Walt's fake video confession won't stand up to investigation - but it will have to be investigated and that will muddy the water and delay Walt's ruin while the authorities decide whether it's Hank or Walt who's lying.

So right now he's doing what he can without making it official.   That's why they went for the wire trap with Jesse.  Getting Walt on tape talking about  his crimes would negate the fake video "confession" and go a lot farther than a hundred pieces of circumstantial evidence.  And will make things happen faster, so Walt's cancer has less chance of killing him before justice is done.

So - overall the alien invasion was a positive experience for you?

Jesse's not under arrest, he's voluntarily spilling his guts to Hank.  There's no reason for him to want to get rid of his video confession five minutes after he gave it.   And yeah, if a video card went suddenly missing Hank would have kicked the bathroom door in rather than blandly mention they need another one.

Jesse went to the bathroom because the writers wanted that private moment between Hank and Gomie, so Hank could say he doesn't actually care if Walt kills Jesse or not.

If anything, that might be the setup - Hank comes across all tough and uncaring, but sometimes he shows just a hint of sentiment.   There may come a moment when Hank has to really choose between his brother in law and the "meth head"... and sides with the meth head.  We shall see...

Yeah, the way Coulton got noticed by the internet was via his Thing A Week project, where he released a new song every week for a year.   Code Monkey and many other iconic Coulton songs came out of that.   

It's really just like FIYH - if you commit to doing some goddam thing every single week(or any kind of regular schedule that forces the creation of new content), people will start to wander over to see what hell that noise is.